UK Police pay up

The Guardian reports:

The Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has been paid £25,000 in compensation by the Metropolitan police and received an apology after his arrest over his gender-critical social media posts.

Linehan, 57, was detained by armed officers at Heathrow airport last September after a 10-hour flight from Arizona.

He was told he was being arrested on suspicion of inciting violence in relation to three posts on X and was held at a nearby police station for 12 hours.

A Met spokesperson said on Thursday: “We recognise the considerable distress caused to Mr Linehan, and have offered our sincere apologies.

“This case prompted a significant change, which means the Met no longer investigates non-crime hate incidents.

So some good came out of this.

This is what he said that got him arrested by armed police:

The third, on 20 April, said: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and, if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”

The UK must have very little actual crime to deal with.